ANT241Y5 Lecture : ANT241Y Lec 3
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Which means that there is no belief of single god however there was a belief in spirits. The term animism is derived from the latin word anima, meaning soul In its most general sense, animism is simply the belief in souls. Personal experience: but before a shaman usually blows spiritual power on various parts of the body for medical reasons, the first pipes developed in the world were in north and south. Also pipes bird would face you in order to see the guarding soul . Sometimes the skin of birds were found on pipes: by the time europeans arrived in the 16th century, most aboriginal men were addicted to tobacco. It was no longer solely associated with religion and spirituality: very little information that women had smoked in all the 16th and 17th century literature, 2 reason for this. Women did not simply smoke b/c essentially bad for periods leading up to childbirth.